- Adonean
- Adonean Ad`o*ne"an (-n[=e]"an), a. [L. Adon[=e]us.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. ``Fair Adonean Venus.'' --Faber. [1913 Webster]
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Sapphic stanza — The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines (more properly three, in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, where there is no word end before the final Adonean). The form is two hendecasyllabic verses, and a… … Wikipedia
Aeolic verse — is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and… … Wikipedia
